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Title: The Cherry Tree in Kawagoe
Alternative Title: 川越之櫻
Creator: Yoshida, Hiroshi, 1876-1950
Date Created and/or Issued: 1935
Publication Information: Japan
Contributing Institution: UC Merced, Library and Special Collections
Collection: Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture collection
Rights Information: Copyrighted
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Rights Holder and Contact: Yoshida, Hiroshi, 1876-1950, Japanese
Description: Annotations/Markings: Signed "よし田" (Yoshida) with seal "博" (Hiroshi) at lower right corner. Printed in Japanese in left margin "自刷昭和拾年作櫻八題川越之櫻" (self-printed in 1935, Eight Scenes of Cherry Blossoms, The Cherry Tree in Kawagoe). Inscribed in pencil in English in lower margin "The Cherry Tree in Kawagoe Hiroshi Yoshida."
Medium: Colors on paper
Biography/History: Artist also known as 吉田博.
Acquisition: Gift of Mr. H. Ed Robison, in memory of his beloved wife Ulrike Pietzner Robison
Funding: Digitization funded by an Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Leadership Grant (LG 30-02-0260-02) awarded to the University of California, Merced Library.
Type: image
Format: 1 woodcut, 37 x 25 cm.
Form/Genre: color woodcuts
shin hanga
Showa
Identifier: ark:/28722/bk0000m812m
ucm_li_2003_077
Language: Japanese
jpn
English
eng
Subject: Flowering cherries
Temples--Japan
Kimonos

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